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Constitution Quotes
"A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible, and less awkward."
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"The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble."
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"A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot."
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"My role isn't to be politically smart. My role is to do what's right under the constitution. And if that's politically unpopular, so be it."
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"When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It's not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other."
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"The constitution ought to specifically state that every nation is left entirely independent and supreme in its internal affairs, such as regulating emigration and all other similar matters."
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"The Constitution has not greatly bothered any wartime President."
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"The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend it. I don't."
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"The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest."
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"And the president is all wrong when he maintains that a nominee should have an up-or-down vote. The Constitution doesn't say that. The Constitution doesn't say that that nominee shall have any vote at all. There doesn't have to even be a vote."
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"The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it."
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"The basic guarantees of our Constitution are warrants for the here and now, and unless there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason, they are to be promptly fulfilled."
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"There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all."
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"Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters."
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"There are only two ways to remove the president - if he violates the constitution or commits high treason. How could anyone accuse me of treason after I had terminated Israel's occupation of South Lebanon in 2000."
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"The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution."
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"Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind."
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"The Iraqis have once again failed to meet a deadline for a final draft of the constitution."
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"Allowing Texas to display the Ten Commandments on State property but disallowing Kentucky courthouses from doing the same is a poor and flawed interpretation of the U.S. Constitution."
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"I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the Constitution to a man who will burn the Constitution and then wrap himself in the flag."
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"That's the key: get the constitution in place. Get rule of law in place, capital will come, electricity will follow."
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"I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution."
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"It's one of the nice things about this nation that when the Constitution is violated, if it affects you, you can bring a suit."
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"Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime."
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"There is a higher law than the Constitution."
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"One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights."
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"Drafting a constitution is only the first step. The constitution has to be granted legitimacy by open discussion and a fair, representative referendum."
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"Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves."
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"Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression."
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"Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards."
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"The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win."
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"If I am confirmed, I will commit to show Heller and the principles articulated in it the full measure of respect that is due to all constitution decisions of the court."
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"A federal judge did as he was supposed to do and upheld the Constitution. We should be thankful that we have judiciary that will do that."
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"I don't think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere, including law schools. In law schools, what they study is what the court said about the Constitution. They study the opinions. They don't study the Constitution itself."
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"We also intend to deal with the issue of incorporating basic human rights into our new constitution."
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"I think the motive is to establish in federal law the personhood from conception forward and try and alter the Constitution through statute."
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"They will sustain the constitution and laws and institutions of the United States, and be the champions of liberty and of that constitution when its integrity shall be threatened."
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"The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational."
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"I am in favor, heartily in favor, of our Constitution and Bill of Rights and I owe my allegiance to my country at all times."
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"The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights."
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"This revision of the Constitution will not be perfect. But at least the Constitution will not be inflexible. It will be a step towards the Social Europe which we wish."
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"They had no right, as it seems to me, to prosecute me in these Halls; nor have you the right in law or under the Constitution, as I respectfully submit, to take jurisdiction over offenses committed against them."
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"Each state in the Union is honored in the order of when it ratified the Constitution and became a part of the United States. This September it is Iowa's turn. Iowa became the 29th state to be admitted to the union on December 28, 1846."
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"If one race be inferior to the other socially, the Constitution of the United States cannot put them upon the same plane."
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"But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man."
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"It is preposterous that the current members of the United States Senate and all of their predecessors for more than 200 years haven't been able to read the Constitution and do what it says."
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"I submit, on the other hand, most respectfully, that the Constitution not merely does not affirm that principle, but, on the contrary, altogether excludes it."
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"The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is."
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"As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom."
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"As a matter of traditional and sound constitutional doctrine, an amendment to the Constitution should be the last resort when all other measures have proved inadequate."
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